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- May 2009
- Case
Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products
By: John H. McArthur and Sunru Yong
Ceres is a leading player in the growing organic gardening industry, selling seeds, small plants, and related items. Their distribution depends heavily on retail sales through independent nurseries and garden centers. Because these small dealers are unable to finance... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Procedures; Marketing; Business Growth; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Marketing Channels; Credit; Financial Statements; Sales; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
McArthur, John H., and Sunru Yong. "Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-017, May 2009.
Work‐from‐anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility
An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work‐from‐anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work‐from‐home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility,... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Asia; Europe; North America
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-052, January 2010. (forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.)
- March 2011
- Case
Cash Flow Productivity at PepsiCo: Communicating Value to Retailers
PepsiCo developed a new metric that better measured the value added by Pepsi products than did gross margin, the traditional metric used by retailers to determine shelf space and promotional activity. The new metric, cash flow productivity, captured the value of... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Cash Flow; Measurement and Metrics; Distribution; Performance Productivity; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Martinez Jerez, F. Asis, and Lisa Brem. "Cash Flow Productivity at PepsiCo: Communicating Value to Retailers." Harvard Business School Case 111-069, March 2011.
- July–August 2013
- Article
Complementary Goods: Creating, Capturing, and Competing for Value
By: Taylan Yalcin, Elie Ofek, Oded Koenigsberg and Eyal Biyalogorsky
This paper studies the strategic interaction between firms producing strictly complementary products. With strict complements, a consumer derives positive utility only when both products are used together. We show that value-capture and value-creation problems arise... View Details
Yalcin, Taylan, Elie Ofek, Oded Koenigsberg, and Eyal Biyalogorsky. "Complementary Goods: Creating, Capturing, and Competing for Value." Marketing Science 32, no. 4 (July–August 2013): 554–569.
- 2001
- Working Paper
Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in New Product Development
By: Alan MacCormack and Roberto Verganti
- June 1995
- Course Overview Note
Superior New Product Development Executive Course
By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Steven C. Wheelwright
Keywords: Product Development
Leonard-Barton, Dorothy, and Steven C. Wheelwright. "Superior New Product Development Executive Course." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 695-084, June 1995.
- 1996
- Chapter
Product Development at Dell Computer Corporation
By: S. Thomke, V. Krishnan and A. Nimgade
- Article
The Effects of Product Line Breadth: Evidence from the Automotive Industry
By: Antonio Moreno and Christian Terwiesch
Using a detailed data set from the U.S. automotive industry, we enrich the existing literature on product line breadth with new results that highlight previously unexplored operational aspects of its benefits and costs. We find that expanding product line breadth has a... View Details
Keywords: Variety; Pricing; Automotive Industry; Marketing/operations Interface; Platforms; Empirical Operations Management; Product Marketing; Production; Management; Auto Industry
Moreno, Antonio, and Christian Terwiesch. "The Effects of Product Line Breadth: Evidence from the Automotive Industry." Marketing Science 36, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 254–271.
- 1995
- Book
Leading Product Development: The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise
By: S. C. Wheelwright and K. B. Clark
Wheelwright, S. C., and K. B. Clark. Leading Product Development: The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise. New York: Free Press, 1995.
- April 1983
- Article
Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self-Enforcing Contracts
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self-Enforcing Contracts." Journal of Business 56, no. 2 (April 1983).
- January 1986 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
Peripheral Products Company: The 'Gray Market' for Disk Drives
In mid-1985, the vice president of marketing for a large manufacturer of disk drives is considering how to deal with a growing "gray market" for his company's products. The case provides good background material on the evolution of gray markets throughout the disk... View Details
Keywords: Price; Growth and Development; Code Law; Leadership; Marketing; Distribution; Production; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Distribution Industry
Cespedes, Frank V. "Peripheral Products Company: The 'Gray Market' for Disk Drives." Harvard Business School Case 586-124, January 1986. (Revised November 2006.)
- 1986
- Chapter
Seihin Kaihatsu ni okeru Senryaku to Soshiki (Strategy and Organization for Product Development)
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka
- April–June 1989
- Article
How Far Should Global Products Go?
By: Louis T Wells Jr and Sushil Vachani
Keywords: Product
Wells, Louis T., Jr, and Sushil Vachani. "How Far Should Global Products Go?" Vikalpa 14, no. 2 (April–June 1989): 3–10.
- November 1989
- Case
Original Italian Pasta Products Co., Inc.
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A. "Original Italian Pasta Products Co., Inc." Harvard Business School Case 590-058, November 1989.
- Aug 2006 - 2006
- Conference Presentation
Entertainment Products in Online and Offline Channels: An Examination of the 'Long Tail'
By: Anita Elberse
- Jun 2006
- Conference Presentation
Entertainment Products in Online and Offline Channels: An Examination of the 'Long Tail'
By: Anita Elberse
- October 1988 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
Du Pont: Biotechnology in Agricultural Products
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Goldberg, Ray A. "Du Pont: Biotechnology in Agricultural Products." Harvard Business School Case 589-058, October 1988. (Revised November 1988.)
- January 1981 (Revised February 1986)
- Teaching Note
Corning Glass Works: The Electronic Products Division (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note
By: Michael Beer
Teaching Note for (9-477-024), (9-477-073), and (9-477-074). View Details
Keywords: Electronics Industry